The song lyrics were written by the band Van Halen, as they were asked to write a song for the 1979 movie "Over the Edge" starring Matt Dillon. The movie (and the lyrics, although more obliquely) are about bored, rebellious youth with nothing better to do than get into trouble. If you see the movie, these lyrics will make more sense. It's a great movie if you grew up in the 70s/80s you'll definitely remember some of these characters from your own life. Fun fact, after writing the song, Van Halen decided not to let the movie use it.
Do you hear the wailing now
Do you hear'em nailing down
To a crown of thorns on
Sorrows born
Heaven's come down for
Sweat like blood comes down
Eclipse a shadow now
The sun is gone and sorrows come
Where it slithers from
Jesus I need you now
Free me I'm lost somehow
Oh, remember me today
I'm a leper left to hang
Oh, yes I need you now
Jesus I need you now
Show me I'm lost somehow
Oh, and show me there's a way from
The cross from where I hang
Oh see me bleed, I need you now
Tell me where I'm going now
Ooh am I lost or found
Are you who they say
Are you who they claim
Oh, remember me
Say a little prayer somehow, ooh
Show me where I'm bound ooh
God I'm falled
The bells are tolling
Just remember me, my name, my name
I'm slowly slipping into
These wings that carry on
My knees are bloody from my crawl
Show me there's a reason
Keep believing you're the one
My knees are buried at your cross
Tell me where I'm going now
Tell me am I going down
Are you who they say you claim
Remember me this night
Breath and hear me now
Ooh bring me alive
Show me all Golgotha's mine
Shadows forever night
Oh is there no hope for me?
Oh, somewhere you'll show for me?
Oh, I'm holding on believing thee's a reason I can find
Oh oh Lord remember me, take me up tonight
Do you hear'em nailing down
To a crown of thorns on
Sorrows born
Heaven's come down for
Sweat like blood comes down
Eclipse a shadow now
The sun is gone and sorrows come
Where it slithers from
Jesus I need you now
Free me I'm lost somehow
Oh, remember me today
I'm a leper left to hang
Oh, yes I need you now
Jesus I need you now
Show me I'm lost somehow
Oh, and show me there's a way from
The cross from where I hang
Oh see me bleed, I need you now
Tell me where I'm going now
Ooh am I lost or found
Are you who they say
Are you who they claim
Oh, remember me
Say a little prayer somehow, ooh
Show me where I'm bound ooh
God I'm falled
The bells are tolling
Just remember me, my name, my name
I'm slowly slipping into
These wings that carry on
My knees are bloody from my crawl
Show me there's a reason
Keep believing you're the one
My knees are buried at your cross
Tell me where I'm going now
Tell me am I going down
Are you who they say you claim
Remember me this night
Breath and hear me now
Ooh bring me alive
Show me all Golgotha's mine
Shadows forever night
Oh is there no hope for me?
Oh, somewhere you'll show for me?
Oh, I'm holding on believing thee's a reason I can find
Oh oh Lord remember me, take me up tonight
Lyrics submitted by Octavarium64
Golgotha Lyrics as written by Steve Edward Duren
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Songtrust Ave
Lyrics powered by LyricFind
Add your thoughts
Log in now to tell us what you think this song means.
Don’t have an account? Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. It’s super easy, we promise!
More Featured Meanings
Light Up The Sky
Van Halen
Van Halen
Fast Car
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
"Fast car" is kind of a continuation of Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run." It has all the clawing your way to a better life, but in this case the protagonist never makes it with her love; in fact she is dragged back down by him.
There is still an amazing amount of hope and will in the lyrics; and the lyrics themselve rank and easy five. If only music was stronger it would be one of those great radio songs that you hear once a week 20 years after it was released. The imagery is almost tear-jerking ("City lights lay out before us", "Speeds so fast felt like I was drunk"), and the idea of starting from nothing and just driving and working and denigrating yourself for a chance at being just above poverty, then losing in the end is just painful and inspiring at the same time.
The Night We Met
Lord Huron
Lord Huron
This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping.
When We Were Young
Blink-182
Blink-182
This is a sequel to 2001's "Reckless Abandon", and features the band looking back on their clumsy youth fondly.
I read that Blackie reaffirmed his Christian faith. In this song, he is praying to Jesus and he feels that he himself is being crucified. I\'m not religious, but I think it\'s a beautiful song.